Early Summer Road Trip Drive To Visit Jim Clark Statue Kilmany North East Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of part of an early Summer road trip drive, North from Cupar, with Scottish music, on ancestry visit to the Jim Clark statue in Kilmany in North East Fife. James Clark Junior was born into a farming family at Kilmany House Farm, Fife, the youngest child of five, and the only boy. In 1942 the family moved to Edington Mains Farm, near Duns, Berwickshire, in the Borders. Born 4th of March 1936, died 7th of April 1968, he was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965. He died in a racing accident at the Hockenheimring, in Germany.

The name and surname Clark comes from one of the family having worked as a person who concerned himself with matters of scholarly importance or of religious orders or as a secretary. The surname Clark originally derived from the Latin form clericus. Even today, the word and profession clerk is typically pronounced clark throughout the United Kingdom.

William Clark, convict, was transported aboard the Ann on August 1809, settling in New South Wales, Australia; Archibald Clark, landed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1840; Peter Clark, landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840; Alexander Clark, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Mary Clark, aged 18, arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1833 aboard the ship John and Mary from Belfast, Ireland; Nicholas Clark, arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, America, in 1634; William Clark, landed in Allegany Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, America, in 1804; George Henry Clark, arrived in Alabama, America, in 1917.

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